{"id":30205,"date":"2013-04-07T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30205"},"modified":"2013-04-07T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T06:07:10","slug":"backing-barack-because-hes-black-racially-motivated-voting-in-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30205","title":{"rendered":"Backing Barack Because He&#8217;s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x\" target=\"_blank\">Backing Barack Because He&#8217;s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1540-6237\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ssqu.2011.92.issue-2\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 92, Issue 2<\/a>, June 2011<br \/>\npages 423\u2013446<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwlax.edu\/polisci\/faculty_staff\/ray_block.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ray Block Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Political Science\/Public Administration<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, La Crosse<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Objective. <\/strong>If racial considerations influenced the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, then <em>how<\/em> did they shape the campaign, <em>why<\/em> did race matter, and <em>for whom<\/em> were such considerations important? I hypothesize that various racial attitudes exert unique influences on voters&#8217; support of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> and that the effects of these attitudes differ by race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Methods. <\/strong>Using a <em>Time Magazine<\/em> poll, I distinguish between \u201cattitudes regarding Obama&#8217;s \u2018Blackness\u2019\u201d and \u201copinions about race relations,\u201d and I examine such sentiments among White and African-American respondents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Results. <\/strong>Regardless of race, Obama support was highest among voters who were \u201ccomfortable\u201d with Black candidates. However, increased optimism with racial progress had no effect on Blacks&#8217; voting intentions, and it actually lowered Obama support among Whites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Conclusion. <\/strong>The conventional wisdom is that African Americans \u201cbacked Barack because he is Black\u201d; I demonstrate that Obama&#8217;s race mattered more to White voters than it did to Blacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backing Barack Because He&#8217;s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election Social Science Quarterly Volume 92, Issue 2, June 2011 pages 423\u2013446 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x Ray Block Jr., Assistant Professor of Political Science\/Public Administration University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Objective. If racial considerations influenced the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, then how did they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[14313,14312,1844],"class_list":["post-30205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ray-block","tag-ray-block-jr","tag-social-science-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}